Doesn't work on a Mac -- ha! posted by mazola at 12:19 PM on August 29, 2006
rescue raiders, of course. man, that was my fav. game for years. it's kinda tough to play it now without my old ch joystick. posted by mrballistic at 12:20 PM on August 29, 2006
doesn't like my firefox, but works in IE. posted by leotrotsky at 12:24 PM on August 29, 2006
Could someone with a Windows machine tell me whether or not the "Conan" game listed is "Conan:Halls of Volta"? I've had the sweetest jones for that game for the past year and this would really make my week. posted by lekvar at 12:27 PM on August 29, 2006
cool, but boo: (Note: Requires Internet Explorer and Windows) posted by mcstayinskool at 12:28 PM on August 29, 2006
Sweet mother of chemistry.... Dungeon Master..... there goes any hopes for a productive afternoon! posted by Dr-Baa at 12:35 PM on August 29, 2006
Ah, Choplifter...one of the first games I was truly bad at. posted by OmieWise at 12:36 PM on August 29, 2006
Oh, hey, I have a great idea. Let's take a whole bunch of classic APPLE games, and then make them playable again ... but only on WINDOWS. Nice. Good times, though. posted by robhuddles at 12:37 PM on August 29, 2006
Getting to play Oregon Trail again is worth using IE! posted by leesh at 12:39 PM on August 29, 2006
Heh. I've played three of these games in the last month. posted by danb at 12:40 PM on August 29, 2006
Wow, now I can play Balance of Power again. The most boring, pointless game on the planet. posted by parmanparman at 12:43 PM on August 29, 2006
Aw, Oregon Trail totally breaks at disk 2. posted by leesh at 12:48 PM on August 29, 2006
Apple II games that can only be played on a Windows box?
The End Times™ are here folks, strap yourselves in, it's gonna be a rough, rough ride.
Next up: Atari 800 games that can only be played on a Timex Sinclair. posted by dbiedny at 12:53 PM on August 29, 2006
Balance of Power was the shit, man! I used to play it almost every day. Great multiplayer games are games where they backstabbing jerk (==me) usually wins. posted by n9 at 12:53 PM on August 29, 2006
I can't view the games from this here computer, but does the Captain Goodnight game come with the super secret decoder wheel that was used for copy protection?
And if they have Sabotage, turn guided shells on and kiss your entire afternoon goodbye. posted by Spatch at 12:54 PM on August 29, 2006
Oregon Trail! Yay! posted by dame at 12:59 PM on August 29, 2006
Not only do they have Archon it's actually the same cracked version I had, awesome. I wonder if the same house phone number is still active? :) posted by Mitheral at 1:07 PM on August 29, 2006
My daughter keeps breaking her legs.
Damn you Oregon Trail. posted by bardic at 1:10 PM on August 29, 2006
can someone link to a mac-friendly version of Oregon Trail? This post has me jonesing to ford some rivers. posted by tylermoody at 1:18 PM on August 29, 2006
Wow, now I can play Balance of Power again. The most boring, pointless game on the planet.
Balance of Power was the shit, man!
I was a QA play-tester on that game when they were porting to other platforms (notably Amiga). It was a great idea, but playing it hour after hour for weeks at a time drained whatever interest I had in it right out.
The guy who designed the game had another one that never saw the light of day which I also play-tested in its beta stage, some of the elements of which are reminiscent of what would become "Civilization". posted by briank at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2006
God I lost many hours to Archon in the day. But why isnt this available on the Mac? I mean, isn't that just the most ridiculous thing ever? posted by Dantien at 1:24 PM on August 29, 2006
What did I miss?
When I was in Grade 2 and was done with the Phonics books I rather liked Karateka, Alpine Encounter, Rescue Raiders and Mario Bros.
Oh, and awesome post. Goodbye day, and maybe week. posted by jimmythefish at 1:26 PM on August 29, 2006
I could have sworn that the first time I read the post, Oregon Trail wasn't listed... posted by mrbill at 1:35 PM on August 29, 2006
My favorite part: start up Micro League Baseball and on the title screen you get the note "Kracked by Hot Rod. Distributed by The Racketeers. Kracked on 09/15/84." Good work, Hot Rod! posted by rogue haggis landing at 2:01 PM on August 29, 2006
Alright, so the browser-based part doesn't work in anything but IE on Windows, but that's okay. At the bottom of every page are links to the disk images! Use those in something like OSXII for the Mac, or xapple2 for various other Unices. You Windows people might want to nab a copy of AppleWin to play the games offline. posted by majick at 2:03 PM on August 29, 2006
Okay, because I only do full service FPPs, for those people who can't play online:
If you have a Mac: You can use Virtual ][ (shareware)
If you have a PC, but are having trouble using the site: You can use Apple Win (GPL)
ROMs are available from the Virtual Apple site, just scroll to the bottom of each game page.
And yes, Below the Root and Rescue Raiders are incredible! Also great (I didn't list it because it didn't run in the browser) is Earth Orbit Stations -- make sure to download it if you get an emulator. posted by blahblahblah at 2:24 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
Shit. There goes my whole night. Where's that foam donut? posted by scblackman at 2:44 PM on August 29, 2006
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I want so badly to play Fool's Errand and 3 in 3 again, but the guy who wrote them only has them up on the web in a format that plays in classic mode. I don't even *have* classic mode anymore.
Phooey. posted by tzikeh at 2:56 PM on August 29, 2006
Wow, thanks! I haven't even thought about some of these games since I last played them in the 80s, yet I remember some bits so vividly. I'm completely tripping out over Captain Goodnight... posted by Onanist at 3:22 PM on August 29, 2006
tzikeh, look into BasiliskII.... it's a very good emulator of 68K Macs. Runs like a dream on PCs, and I'm pretty sure it runs well (albeit somewhat slower) on the Mac. posted by Malor at 3:33 PM on August 29, 2006
Wow, thanks! I haven't even thought about some of these games since I last played them in the 80s, yet I remember some bits so vividly. I'm completely tripping out over Captain Goodnight...
Yeah, that is what freaked me out the most. I started up Rescue Raiders and immediately the correct strategy came to mind. I also realized I remembered the location of all of the towns in Ultima IV. That scares me... posted by blahblahblah at 3:34 PM on August 29, 2006
Wow, this hasn't been on Metafilter before? Virtualapple's been around forever! posted by thirteenkiller at 3:47 PM on August 29, 2006
It has been on MeFi but usually with an external emulator, this is the first I've seen where you just surf, click and play (and where the speeds are set correctly). posted by stbalbach at 3:49 PM on August 29, 2006
Firebird. The one where you tried to 'catch' people jumping out of windows.
Now that was a game. In the kind of way "if I ever wrote a game and it was this bad I should shoot myself" way. posted by rough ashlar at 3:51 PM on August 29, 2006
What's amazing to me is that these games that are four floppies worth of data are more fun than modern games that span four cd's worth of data. How is that? posted by peeedro at 4:11 PM on August 29, 2006
After 12 years I finally beat Oregon Trail. It helps to not have the session trucated to the length of a study hall.
And now I'm in the Top Ten! Woooo! posted by yeti at 4:12 PM on August 29, 2006
blahblahblahwrites"I also realized I remembered the location of all of the towns in Ultima IV. That scares me..."
Bah. Ultima IV is, considering its technological limitations, pretty much a perfect game. It's an open-ended quest that provides countless hours of fun; while the later Ultima games had better stories and real dialogue and intricate graphics and the bar was not likely to say "BAR" in big letters, none of them has given me a tenth as many enjoyable hours playing as Ultima IV. It's simple, but wonderful fun with what it's got. posted by graymouser at 4:23 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
Okay, first...
Firefox : IE :: Flying in the concord : banging your head against a rock until you hallucinate that you've travelled somewhere pretty. But I'm sucking it up for this.
Secondly, and I'm willing to admit that this is probably because I'm a moron, but Carmen Sandiego has been giving me the message to insert the second disc when the intro starts for, like, the last fifteen minutes now, with no intro. When I try to "insert" the second "disc" it gives me an error message, so I do a run command to bring me back to the original screen.
All I want is to play the game, how do I get past the Apple II obscurity that I didn't grow up with? posted by Navelgazer at 4:25 PM on August 29, 2006
And when I said "obscurity" I of course meant intricacies. posted by Navelgazer at 4:30 PM on August 29, 2006
No Reader Rabbit :-(
And are there some virtually copy-protected games we can use the virtual copy of Copy II Plus on? posted by jfuller at 4:51 PM on August 29, 2006
Oh, lord, Wings Of Fury! I loved that game. Torpedo runs at a destroyer with the anti-aircraft fire splashing in the water all around you. . .and I feel kind of guilty about it now, but to my ten-year-old self, the tiny little stick figures being flung in the air by your machine guns was almost unaccountably hilarious. posted by EarBucket at 4:56 PM on August 29, 2006
Oh, and Sherlock Holmes--Another Bow. I rented it when I was a kid, loved it but didn't get to finish it, returned it after a week and could never find it again. Now I get to play all the way through! Thanks, blahblahblah! posted by EarBucket at 4:59 PM on August 29, 2006
Oh heavens...Ultima IV...now i've got to go out and find some mandrake and deadly nightshade to be able to cast some wicked spell I can't remember the other reagents for... posted by rhythim at 5:17 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
graymouser and rhythim have lost an eighth. posted by bardic at 5:37 PM on August 29, 2006 [1 favorite]
holy cow. This site is complete .. even the unpopular games that I for some reason loved like Pooyan and Aztec. I can even play Karateka now, which I was never able to do on my old //c. Awesome post blahblahblah! posted by rks404 at 5:43 PM on August 29, 2006
Cool site, but lack of Spellevator dampens Kwinean nostalgia. posted by Kwine at 5:54 PM on August 29, 2006
OM OM OM posted by belling at 6:21 PM on August 29, 2006
oh! so much joy!
anyone know a way to port the emulator to a emate newton platform?
googling bring up too many site for either, but not a site for apple II on newton.
that would bring my ultima/taipan needs to a happy place! posted by jeribus at 6:22 PM on August 29, 2006
ho-lee-shit! Thanks blahblahblah! I was (mistakenly) looking at IIGs games. And they also have Santa Paravia! I wonder if it still has that bug where it throws an overflow error if you have grow too many steres of wheat. posted by Afroblanco at 6:57 PM on August 29, 2006
Holy shit, Drol! That game was HOURS of mindless fun. posted by 40 Watt at 7:21 PM on August 29, 2006
Bah! FUCKFACE has died. posted by Hicksu at 9:07 PM on August 29, 2006
graymouser and rhythim may have lost an eighth, but they know their shit.
Ultima IV is the best gaem evar!
I oughtta know, look at my profile.
-==(UDIC)==- posted by djeo at 9:22 PM on August 29, 2006
seadragon. Seadragon! SEADRAGON!!!! (early voice synth, if I recall correctly) posted by haricotvert at 9:56 PM on August 29, 2006
Am I the only one not to be bored witless by Taipan? posted by patricio at 4:39 AM on August 30, 2006
Does anyone remember the game (it may have been for the early Macs, not Apples) where you're exploring a dark castle in platformer style, and you have to throw rocks at bats? I can see it in my head, but I can't remember the name for the life of me. posted by klangklangston at 6:57 AM on August 30, 2006
I, also, found Taipan tedious when I played it at school 20 years ago.
You could make it a lot more tedious by cheating, though. Change a few BASIC variables and you could edit your ship's specs. Hold space, money, crew... and number of guns.
Number of enemies in combat was, as I recall, a function of the number of guns on your ship. So your man o' war with 65536 guns would invariably face some hilarious number of pirates, and each combat turn would then last until proton decay destroyed the universe. posted by dansdata at 7:03 AM on August 30, 2006
"From the animals you shot, you got 1921 pounds of meat. However, you were only able to carry 100 pounds back to your wagon."
Seriously, still disappointing. More than one trip?
Also, small flashback that I had. On the tombstone that you can look at on this particular game, it says somethings like "Cheez and peporoni".
There was a commercial at the time for Tombstone pizza where they would say "what do you want on your tombstone?"
We would always do this too, I love how it got saved and preserved in this version. Oh to be five again. posted by Sreiny at 9:08 AM on August 30, 2006
Hm. Does anyone remember the name of that Apple //e game where you ran a farm in a kingdom, planned which crops each year to plant, bought more land, and slowly raised yourself from lowly farmer to king?
Arg! That's killing me! posted by eatdonuts at 9:46 AM on August 30, 2006
Does anyone remember the game (it may have been for the early Macs, not Apples) where you're exploring a dark castle in platformer style, and you have to throw rocks at bats?
ZANY GOLF!!!!!! alas, with this one, it's hard to 'release' the ball. sigh. posted by misanthropicsarah at 10:55 AM on August 30, 2006
Djeo? No shit!
DragonSpawn
-==UDIC==-
Also Kabul Spy! Finally - after all these years I will understand what the hell it was on about and why there werethe first few rooms from collosal cave in the middle of it. posted by Sparx at 1:14 PM on August 30, 2006
My god. It's full of stars....
Thanks for posting this, blah. posted by Inkslinger at 3:31 PM on August 30, 2006
Now that this has won, I can say it: Dammit, I would have made this post in December if it wasn't down then! posted by kyleg at 7:56 PM on August 30, 2006
The Ultima Dragons are a large virtual club founded in 1992 on Prodigy who have since moved to the Internet due to Prodigy's outrageous rate structure. The club is dedicated to helping others with their Ultima questions, discussing Ultima, and, most obviously, sharing information and creative exploits posted by lazaruslong at 2:22 AM on September 2, 2006
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